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502 VII | married, she will have the delicacy to conceal her husband so~
503 VII | sounded your heart with a delicate touch, and have asked~you
504 VII | under the golden canopy of a delicious dream, which will last~perhaps
505 IV | love can give such gracious delights~as those lavished by such
506 VII | great lady of the past, the demeanor of lofty~antagonism; she
507 V | obscure journalists, which demolished the splendors of the social~
508 VIII| Who will ever~explain, depict, or understand Napoleon?
509 II | celebrated man, now dead, depicted the innocent~jesuistry of
510 VI | own which epitomizes and depicts it."~ ~"You are right,"
511 VI | She is a modern product, a deplorable triumph of the elective
512 IX | At this moment she was deplorably thin;~her face was covered
513 V | away all my illusions; you deprave my heart.'~ ~"She said to
514 VII | Society is tottering, and you~deprive it of its support. Why,
515 VIII| action, who comprehended Desaix and Fouche."~ ~"All despotism
516 V | all well, each of these descendants will~have but sixty or eighty
517 IX | the roar of lions~in the desert, the bellowing of bulls--
518 VI | admiration, mingled with desire, but subdued by deep respect.
519 IX | The Duke awoke, and was in despair~at having fallen asleep.
520 III | revenges~were possible--I despised myself, I felt how common
521 II | drawing-room the charm is destroyed. According to Sterne, the~
522 VII | which is always aiming at destroying its work in order to replace
523 III | fearful lie. One single lie destroys the absolute~confidence
524 VII | the end of the~evening you detect her gazing fixedly at a
525 IV | excepting~in public? Have you detected in my eyes----?'--'No,'
526 VIII| And are we really so much deteriorated as these gentlemen think?"~
527 VII | Protestant--but moral?~Oh! deuced moral!--in which you may
528 II | spot where our faculties develop----"~ ~"Yes," said de Marsay; "
529 VI | Is it to an angel or a devil that she owes the graceful
530 II | guarantee of madness?~ ~"We each devoted all our minds to concealing
531 VIII| turning to me, "since, while devoting yourself to~the human body,
532 VIII| know cases of beautiful devotion, of sublime~sufferings,
533 VII | the arm of her chair as dewdrops~hang on the cup of a flower,
534 IV | those lavished by such a dexterous fraud. Such refined hypocrisy
535 VI | feuilletons/ written in a dialect~which changes every three
536 III | months, full and perfect--a diamond of the purest water! That
537 I | woman with such a load of~diamonds?" Or, after firing off some
538 III | and the hot blood about~my diaphragm. At the end of an hour I
539 VIII| vat a pleashre it is to dichest vile you talk," said Baron
540 VI | it has hidden itself to~die--emigrating inland before
541 VII | at squalid events,~and it dies in a day."~ ~"Hence," said
542 II | or silent, as characters differ. Then every one finds his~
543 VI | Count, to recognize the~differences by which the observer /emeritus/
544 IV | would have found it very difficult~to break with me, for he
545 II | then,~but also to listen. Digestion, which is almost always
546 V | lady, she died out with the dignified~splendor of the last century,
547 VIII| famous river disorder did not diminish. I had come~quietly and
548 II | of a party. Between the dining-room and~the drawing-room the
549 IV | eyes of the blind. 'But by~dint of going to church I have
550 VIII| and the obtuseness,~the diplomacy and the ignorance which
551 VIII| Borgo, and of Metternich,~diplomatists whose death would have saved
552 IV | Duke?'~ ~"The thrust was so direct, my gaze met hers so boldly,
553 VIII| involuntary cause of a terrible disaster which may be of use to you,~
554 VIII| had, as you know, lost~all discipline, and had forgotten military
555 VII | Christopher Columbus~to discover him. Often you will fail
556 III | de Marsay~went on. "I discovered that I was a statesman."~ ~
557 IV | you will do me justice by discovering how unlike~my character
558 I | were poured out without disdain, but without~effort, and
559 II | swagger, or playing the~disdained swain,--all these old manoeuvres
560 VI | aspect, at once quiet and disdainful, makes the most insolent~
561 IV | as it was, could not be~disguised; her eyes fell before mine,
562 V | tears of vexation. 'You disgust me with the world and with
563 VIII| small, you prefer small dishes, small rooms,~small pictures,
564 II | within himself a cold and disinterested other self,~who looks on
565 VI | distance of ten~yards. She displays no gaudy colors, no open-worked
566 III | fear lest she should have disposed of her~time after receiving
567 III | would be the most~atrocious dissimulation, was the result of my youth
568 V | progressive ruin of all~social distinctions. We ought to have saved
569 V | inconstancy. Men will never distinguish between constancy and~fidelity.--
570 VI | is attended by two very~distinguished-looking men, of whom one, at any
571 VI | the observer /emeritus/ distinguishes them--women~are such consummate
572 VIII| had not the~Empire its distinguishing stamp as the age of Louis
573 III | is as~delightful as it is distressing."~ ~A foreign minister smiled
574 VI | Madeleine; in the least muddy districts of the citizen~quarters,
575 I | abruptness, their~elusive divarications, you may perhaps feel the
576 VIII| single room, with one end divided off by a wooden partition,
577 VIII| wooden partition, the~smaller division serving as a store-room
578 VII | dread of a~trial in the divorce-court. This woman--so free at
579 III | she might~not observe my dizziness, this proud thought somewhat
580 VII | material woven by modern doctrines, at loggerheads together."~ ~
581 V | the sofa like a frightened doe, trembling~like a leaf,
582 I | here you need not, like the dolphin in the fable, carry a monkey
583 IX | Italian manners, or to some domestic secret; yet there was in
584 VIII| illness by a battle, and yet doomed to die of disease in~bed
585 III | winding-~sheet of experience, dooming me to the eternal mourning
586 II | servants had left, that the doors were shut, and the curtains
587 VIII| is not the peer of~Madame Doublet, or Madame du Deffant, in
588 IV | crime,' I went on. 'I have doubted your love~and your fidelity.
589 V | appraises her as she walks downstairs, and says to his friend--
590 IX | one of the most horrible dramas of self-seeking,~melancholy,
591 VIII| Montriveau, "in all the dramas--a word~you are very fond
592 II | treasured /her/ old gloves; I drank an~infusion of the flowers /
593 VI | her throat, a science of drapery recalling the antique Mnemosyne.~ ~"
594 VI | mantilla; she knows how to draw it round her from her hips
595 VI | embroidered frills to her drawers~ ~fussing round her ankles.
596 IX | pointing to the wood and drawing his sword. The two colonels
597 VII | Englishwoman who lives in dread of a~trial in the divorce-court.
598 V | moment's silence, 'I am dreadfully unhappy, my dear fellow.
599 VII | ivory gates~of the temple of dreams.~ ~"The lady, when she is
600 V | and says to his friend--dressed~by Buisson, as we all are,
601 V | looked at me, took my hand, drew me~along almost, threw me
602 III | exhausted orator, the Minister dried up by the friction of public~
603 I | evening. The conversation had drifted~into anecdote, and brought
604 VIII| south. The soldiers would drive a general in rags and bare-foot
605 IX | in spite of the care the driver took to keep among the~scrub,
606 V | simplicity was so extremely droll, that his wife,~who was
607 VI | effort in the intentional droop of the eyelid. There is~
608 VII | trivialities; she simply drops her hand~impressively, letting
609 IX | like fruit exposed to the drought of a~highroad. Scarcely
610 III | half-past three, the carriage drove out. I could~observe my
611 VI | against~the citizen class drunk with power, and rushing
612 VI | taken up at random. The Duc de Bourbon~was the last
613 V | his drawing-~room swept by ducal satin and velvet did not
614 II | good looks, two~advantages due to good fortune, but of
615 V | this is what happens: Any duke--and even in the time of~
616 V | cheat us you~still are our dupes!'--'I see that plainly,'
617 IV | well aware of its own short~duration that we are irresistibly
618 IX | her face was covered with dust, like fruit exposed to the
619 VI | distinction, all combined, but dwarfed. We shall see no more great~
620 VIII| farm-buildings of la Beauce. These dwellings consist of a~single room,
621 I | these evenings especially dwells with me, less by~reason
622 IV | artist who at that time dwelt in the Rue Boucher.~The
623 III | the Princesse de Cadignan eagerly.~ ~"Unique and true love,"
624 II | such a monster at a~very early age, thanks to a woman."~ ~"
625 VIII| after making us weigh on the~earth in such a way as to change
626 VI | lady.'~ ~"It is not very easy for a foreigner, my dear
627 VIII| philanthropic. I sat down to eat on one of the bundles of~
628 VIII| common sight enough--were eating~potatoes, some horseflesh
629 II | cry of nature, finding an echo in the listeners, spurred
630 IX | the handsome d'Orsay, was eclipsed by~our colonel on the occasion
631 I | light or deep, play~and eddy, changing their aspect and
632 VII | as to produce the magical effect~of the 'lost profile,' so
633 V | or Louis de Valois ever effected a more judicious retreat
634 V | to her, and with a~simple effrontery, an artless audacity, which
635 V | descendants will~have but sixty or eighty thousand francs a year now;
636 | either
637 I | sparkled and flowed~without elaboration, were poured out without
638 II | every one may sit with an elbow on the table and his~head
639 V | fortune?~Henceforth the eldest son's wife, a duchess in
640 VI | ladies' for a long time, elected~by public opinion to form
641 VI | deplorable triumph of the elective system~as applied to the
642 VI | you to expect a~world of elegance and refinement. Like a botanist
643 III | envy, and all this was~as elegantly expressed, oh! as Clarissa
644 IV | me always?' I seized the elegiac moment, so warm, so flowery,~
645 IV | inevitable law,~deaf and mute. Eliminate revenge, and infidelity
646 V | manly bosom with~half an ell of satin by way of a cuirass,
647 | Elsewhere
648 I | freshness and abruptness, their~elusive divarications, you may perhaps
649 VI | times, a last remaining embodiment of good taste, grace, wit,~
650 VI | over-elaborate waist-buckle, no embroidered frills to her drawers~ ~
651 VII | any analogy. The woman has~emerged from those mysterious garments
652 VI | differences by which the observer /emeritus/ distinguishes them--women~
653 VI | has hidden itself to~die--emigrating inland before the march
654 VIII| fact, been borrowed by the~Emperor from Eugene's army, my colonel
655 VIII| pas/,"~Blondet replied, emphasizing the words with a stolen
656 VIII| said Canalis,~with an emphatic tone and gesture. "It was
657 VIII| improvised public works, empires, kings, codes,~verses, a
658 VII | her~insinuating voice; her empty words will enchant you,
659 VIII| she is a woman /comme il n'en faut pas/,"~Blondet replied,
660 IX | and horror which ever was enacted under heaven.~Nevertheless,
661 VII | voice; her empty words will enchant you, and she will know~how
662 VIII| age of five-and-twenty~the encyclopaedic knowledge of trifles, the
663 I | in the morning, as supper ended, no one was left sitting~
664 I | In short, where the rout ends pleasure begins.~ ~The Rout,
665 II | that time a man would have endured~death to win one of her
666 IV | I am not speaking to you Englishwomen, my lady,"~said the Minister,
667 VIII| through my second campaign; I enjoyed danger, and laughed~at everything,
668 VIII| a woman--a common sight enough--were eating~potatoes, some
669 VII | effectually that it will need the enterprise of Christopher Columbus~
670 I | of women rich~enough to entertain, and since July 1830 such
671 V | laugh at~her expression of entire conviction and sweet satisfaction
672 III | happiness she found a cause of envy, and all this was~as elegantly
673 VII | the fault of our age. The~epigram--a volume in a word--no longer
674 I | after firing off some smart epigrams, which give~transient pleasure,
675 VI | a word of its own which epitomizes and depicts it."~ ~"You
676 VIII| Camargo? or Malibran the~equal of Saint-Huberti? Are not
677 I | pretensions to importance. Perfect equality set the~tone. But indeed
678 VI | the Boulevards from the~equator of the Passage des Panoramas,
679 VII | termine/, she is a~creature of equivocal compromises, of guarded
680 VIII| formerly gave lustre to the errors of some women. But though
681 II | what charm~we found in our escapades! Of her I will say nothing.
682 I | there been fewer~men placed, established, and successful than under
683 VI | the recesses of its landed estates, where it has hidden itself
684 III | experience, dooming me to the eternal mourning into which the~
685 IV | some way to bind me to her eternally, and God alone knew~that
686 IV | sitting by the side of the ethereal being in~her boudoir, on
687 Add | Father Goriot~ The Thirteen~ Eugenie Grandet~ Cesar Birotteau~
688 I | The memory of one of these evenings especially dwells with me,
689 VII | at things, but at squalid events,~and it dies in a day."~ ~"
690 III | My ailing~condition was evident; the horrible doubts that
691 VIII| in whose rooms so much evil was~spoken and done? Is
692 IX | in the exquisiteness and exacting needs of their intellect.
693 VIII| preached a great deal by~example," said the Baronne de Nucingen.~ ~"
694 IV | marriage to the Duke an excellent arrangement; he gives you
695 IX | was in contrasts in this exceptional man. Passion lives on~contrast.
696 I | insignificant phrases are exchanged, as: "Do~you think of going
697 III | all uttered an admiring exclamation.~ ~"As I thought over the
698 VII | her sex so naturally as to exclude~all idea of art or premeditation.
699 VIII| of your feelings~might be excused, I have always observed
700 II | Paris, one superior man excuses himself from admiring another.~ ~"
701 I | amusement,~relaxation, and exercise. Here, then, alone, will
702 I | share of influence they~exercised in Paris, and have not closed
703 IX | need not ask whether he exerted over women the~irresistible
704 II | The statesman, my friends, exists by one single quality,"
705 VI | good book, it leads you to expect a~world of elegance and
706 VII | stately, on the stairs, she is experiencing some violent~emotion; she
707 IV | every color. After I had explained my order, he~showed me his
708 II | ready-reckoner."~ ~"That explains why a statesman is so rare
709 VIII| a delta,~or, to be more explicit, in Redgauntlet's horseshoe.
710 IX | covered with dust, like fruit exposed to the drought of a~highroad.
711 IX | an indescribable gesture, expressing all the annoyance~she could
712 I | without~effort, and were exquisitely expressed and delicately
713 IX | explanation lies~in the exquisiteness and exacting needs of their
714 III | wit and manners, by the extent of her~knowledge and her
715 III | internal self of which the exterior /I/ is but the~husk; that
716 VIII| colonel, one of the~most extraordinary men I ever saw among all
717 I | one can afford the lavish~extravagance of going home to-morrow
718 VIII| you have ever observed the extreme fairness of~Italians when
719 V | cost six francs,~screws his eye-glass into one of his eye-sockets
720 V | eye-glass into one of his eye-sockets by puckering up his~cheek,
721 VI | intentional droop of the eyelid. There is~something conventional
722 IV | Have you detected in my eyes----?'--'No,' said I, 'but
723 I | like the dolphin in the fable, carry a monkey on~your
724 VIII| and was~not its splendor fabulous? Have the sciences lost
725 I | company saddens the~prettiest faces. In short, where the rout
726 IX | other end~of the table, facing the Colonel. This Sicilian
727 VII | which you may recognize a fag end of every~material woven
728 IV | the story books ascribe to fairies, or which are executed~by
729 VIII| ever observed the extreme fairness of~Italians when they are
730 IV | left the~shop still having faith in pleasure, but where love
731 IV | believed these adorable~falsehoods, as I still held her right
732 I | moment when the most engaging familiarity makes~each one forget his
733 VII | the~only remedy; it unites families which your laws put asunder,'
734 V | not her~own rooms in the family mansion, nor her fortune,
735 II | thanks to a woman."~ ~"I fancied," said Madame de Montcornet
736 III | on itself, pictures its fancies,~turns them into reality
737 VIII| indeed taken such a singular fancy to me~that he thought everything
738 VI | is of no use now but for fanning herself.~When once a thing
739 VIII| artificial light. When I read the fantastical portrait of Colonel~Oudet
740 VIII| Normandy, or~the poorest farm-buildings of la Beauce. These dwellings
741 VIII| given us a picture of the fascinations of a woman~of the day; but,
742 VII | promise. The costly toys of~fashion lie about, but not so as
743 I | of the persons~invited, a fashionable and much-bored circle. Each
744 IV | date as to the caprices and fashions~governing the use of hair. '
745 VI | long pelisse, with~bows to fasten it, and neatly bound with
746 VI | of~Parisians: hooks ill fastened, strings showing loops of
747 IX | glass-blower; still, by a singular fatality--an~observer might perhaps
748 IX | perhaps she~foresaw her fate. Rosina remained quietly
749 I | the French woman since the fateful revolution of~July.~ ~On
750 II | In my position I was so fatuous as never~to dream of a suspicion.
751 VIII| And it~must be said, your faults, mesdames, are all the more
752 IX | was~sounded. Though this faulty pronunciation was at times
753 II | comfortably, each in his~favorite attitude, to look at the
754 III | the house,~the word was a fearful lie. One single lie destroys
755 VI | such women~wear only bows. Feathers demand a carriage; flowers
756 IV | intelligence, and these acrobatic~feats which can only be successful
757 IX | the~man's countenance one feature which always filled me with
758 IX | we could hear a woman's feeble scream. We all looked~round,
759 IX | husband's~and clasped it feebly; and in a low but agitated
760 III | every intelligent spectator~feels that he would ask Desdemona'
761 Add | Touches, Mademoiselle Felicite des~ Beatrix~ Lost Illusions~
762 Add | Department~ ~Vandenesse, Comte Felix de~ The Lily of the Valley~
763 V | dreadfully unhappy, my dear fellow. Do you~love me?'--'Oh!
764 VIII| cold was less~intense; my fellow-officers were resting, they were
765 II | of~the handsomest young fellows in Paris. I had youth and
766 I | manners, cordiality, genial~fellowship, and knowledge; but only
767 VIII| Blondet, "would you class the female~author? Is she a perfect
768 III | horrible doubts that had fermented in me~increased it. At last
769 II | friends know how impetuous and fervid I was then.~I was in love
770 III | off one of those secret~festivals which are buried under the
771 VI | haunts the terrace of the Feuillants,~but not the asphalt pavement
772 VI | the quality of a spoken /feuilleton/--delightful calumnies~graced
773 VI | elegant language. We read /feuilletons/ written in a dialect~which
774 I | any rule, have there been fewer~men placed, established,
775 V | Marsay. "For very nearly~fifty years we have been looking
776 VI | were ashamed of having to fight against~the citizen class
777 IX | outline of her~features and figure, charms which misery, cold,
778 VIII| of degree; all the great figures~shrink into the background,
779 IX | given to vowels and the final syllable,~concentrated all
780 IV | have there, sir, one of the finest pieces of~work we have ever
781 IX | arrival the colonel, having~finished his meagre meal, wiped his
782 I | of~diamonds?" Or, after firing off some smart epigrams,
783 VI | might have~the voice of a fish-seller, the walk of a grenadier,
784 VII | its spangle of fire, but fixed on space, and the white~
785 VIII| every~direction without fixing it anywhere; a man who could
786 VII | and fortune are no longer~flags so respected as to protect
787 IX | been barricaded, and~was in flames. Swirls of smoke borne on
788 VIII| performance of the same flash of wit."~ ~"And are we really
789 IV | hearing this a~suspicion flashed upon me; I took out my handkerchief
790 VIII| terrifying than the magnetic flashes of his blue~eyes. His whole
791 V | the strictest economy in a flat on the ground floor or first
792 I | This is not a~piece of flattery addressed to France, for
793 III | Yes; I felt a cold and fleshless hand cast over me the winding-~
794 IX | together, like geese led in~flocks by a child's wilful tyranny.
795 VI | where the products of India~flourish, where the warmest creations
796 I | precision, all sparkled and flowed~without elaboration, were
797 IV | elegiac moment, so warm, so flowery,~so full-blown, to lead
798 IV | absolute, divine love, I flung~myself into an adventure,
799 VI | weather, she may be seen flying in the Avenue of the Champs-Elysees,~
800 IX | colonel was no longer human! Foam like the froth of champagne
801 IX | English are in jest, their foils have the buttons on," said~
802 VI | and after five o'clock fold up~like morning-glory flowers.
803 VIII| When posterity shall have~followed us, will not Madame Recamier
804 VI | a servant out of livery follows her at a distance of ten~
805 VIII| dramas--a word~you are very fond of," he said, looking at
806 VIII| everything, like the young and foolish lieutenant of artillery
807 VI | really owed them asphalt footwalks.~ ~"Our Unknown jostles
808 VIII| serving as a store-room for forage.~ ~"In the darkness of twilight
809 VIII| mordant, the most acid of all~forces; a singular genius who carried
810 IX | pointed to his breast with the forefinger of his right~hand, and,
811 VI | It is not very easy for a foreigner, my dear Count, to recognize
812 I | for there were a good many~foreigners present. And, indeed, the
813 VI | understands the /cut/ of her gait--forgive the~expression. Study the
814 III | he would ask Desdemona's forgiveness. Thus, killing the~woman
815 V | those looks in which women forgo all their~dignity, all their
816 VIII| all discipline, and had forgotten military obedience. It was
817 IV | this gesture by using the formal /vous/ instead of~/tu/. '
818 VIII| aquiline nose delicately formed, of which the~tip used to
819 | former
820 III | common I was, I~insensibly formulated a horrible code--that of
821 VII | laws put asunder,' and so~forth. Then she plunges into some
822 II | by every event, however fortuitous; in~short, of having within
823 VIII| comprehended Desaix and Fouche."~ ~"All despotism and all
824 III | to some souls is the very foundation of happiness.~ ~"To explain
825 II | once the triumph and the~frail joy of the young. I treasured /
826 V | husband is~made a peer of France--baronesses have never succeeded
827 VIII| might make them seem praise frankly addressed to Camille Maupin. "
828 VIII| hypocrisy and the delightful frankness of the eighteenth century--
829 IV | lavished by such a dexterous fraud. Such refined hypocrisy
830 Add | Arcis~ ~Nucingen, Baron Frederic de~ The Firm of Nucingen~
831 VII | divorce-court. This woman--so free at a ball, so~attractive
832 VII | the good taste~to affect Free-thought, she will try to convert
833 I | conventionalities of courtesy, perfect freedom of talk~notwithstanding
834 VIII| their letters.~Whether the Frenchwoman be called 'perfect lady,'
835 II | till they leave, having frequently remarked the change which
836 I | down in all their natural freshness and abruptness, their~elusive
837 III | Minister dried up by the friction of public~business, I still
838 IV | assuming the manner of a friend; 'but be~as devout as possible,
839 V | downstairs, and says to his friend--dressed~by Buisson, as we
840 IX | most touching~way, with a friendly smile, to bid me leave him
841 V | up from the sofa like a frightened doe, trembling~like a leaf,
842 VI | silk cape, stirs its lace frill,~sheds an airy balm, and
843 VI | waist-buckle, no embroidered frills to her drawers~ ~fussing
844 V | affairs, for she stopped in front of me, held out her~hand,
845 VIII| name, lost his name on the frontier of his~empire in a sea of
846 IX | longer human! Foam like the froth of champagne rose to~his
847 VIII| over the charcoal, and some frozen~beetroots. I recognized
848 IX | covered with dust, like fruit exposed to the drought of
849 IV | so warm, so flowery,~so full-blown, to lead her to tell her
850 VIII| is purely personal. I am~fully convinced that it is impossible
851 IX | Oudet, threw an incredible fulness of~tone into the syllable
852 VII | she wears a~boa over her fur cloak; in summer, a shawl
853 IX | him do in a paroxysm of fury. We were dragging our~guns
854 VI | frills to her drawers~ ~fussing round her ankles. You will
855 V | us commit so many follies gained me~the admirable presence
856 VI | understands the /cut/ of her gait--forgive the~expression.
857 IX | there was a quarrel; he galloped up, riding among the~guns
858 VI | rusty-white~tape through a gaping slit in the back, rubbed
859 VI | road, to the north by the~gardens of the Faubourg Saint-Honore.
860 VII | emerged from those mysterious garments like a butterfly from its
861 III | was two o'clock; the great gate opened to admit a carriage.
862 VII | finger, has opened the ivory gates~of the temple of dreams.~ ~"
863 VII | evening party, you will gather the honey, natural or affected
864 VI | ten~yards. She displays no gaudy colors, no open-worked stockings,
865 VI | snake does under the green gauze of trembling grass.~Is it
866 IX | to join our caravan; we gazed at him~in silence, for no
867 VII | trots about, comes, goes, gazes, does~not know whether she
868 VII | the~evening you detect her gazing fixedly at a middle-aged
869 IX | walked on together, like geese led in~flocks by a child'
870 VII | Conversation is~impossible without generalities."~ ~"Yes," said de Marsay, "
871 IX | reflections on the campaign, the generals, their mistakes, the~Russians,
872 VIII| her bath! Hypocritical and generous; loving tawdriness and~simplicity;
873 I | elegant manners, cordiality, genial~fellowship, and knowledge;
874 VIII| to be~jealous of literary genius--for he had his mean points.
875 III | suspiciousness.--When jealousy is genuine," said de Marsay,~interrupting
876 VII | phrases, the head-shaking and~gestures understood by all these
877 VII | her finger by a ring. She gets an artificial~grandeur out
878 VII | sight--flowers, the only~gift she accepts, and those only
879 VII | white~shoulders; she will gild an insignificant speech
880 VIII| manipulating Europe as a young girl might amuse herself by splashing~
881 II | death to win one of her glances. She had been left with
882 VII | of dazzling whiteness, or~glancing in the mirrors to see if
883 VI | actresses; but they are glaring in the eyes of~Parisians:
884 VII | you will see nothing under glass shades, no rags of wrappings~
885 IX | moulded~under the pipe of the glass-blower; still, by a singular fatality--
886 V | where~apocryphal genius gleams under curling locks, and
887 VI | by a~hair's breadth; they glide unremarkable between the
888 V | their grace,~the sparkling glitter of a hunted viper's eye
889 I | laughter takes the place of the gloom which in company saddens
890 VIII| lack the publicity--the glory, if you choose--which~formerly
891 VI | turned it inside out~like a glove, could have ruled the world
892 II | young. I treasured /her/ old gloves; I drank an~infusion of
893 V | only a rational issue.'--'Good-bye,~Monsieur de Marsay,' said
894 I | Gozlan as a Token of Literary Good-fellowship.~At Paris there are almost
895 IX | wiped his moustache, bid us good-night, shot~a black look at the
896 VI | way through Paris~like a gossamer, spotless and pure.~ ~"This
897 II | flowers /she/ had worn; I got out of bed at night to~go
898 VIII| fault of the~Grocers who govern us, we have not a style
899 IV | the caprices and fashions~governing the use of hair. 'For the
900 Add | Secrets of a Princess~ The Government Clerks~ Pierrette~ A Study
901 VI | simplicity. You notice that her gown is made of a neat and~inexpensive
902 V | The Empire saw the last of gowns with trains! I am still~
903 I | I~Dedication~To Leon Gozlan as a Token of Literary Good-fellowship.~
904 VI | devil that she owes the graceful undulation~which plays under
905 IV | true love can give such gracious delights~as those lavished
906 Add | narrated the following:~ La Grande Breteche~ ~Blondet, Emile~
907 Add | Goriot~ The Thirteen~ Eugenie Grandet~ Cesar Birotteau~ Melmoth
908 VII | She gets an artificial~grandeur out of superlative trivialities;
909 III | women~in the world, why not grant her the right to change
910 V | children, two of them girls. Granting that he has~great luck in
911 VI | green gauze of trembling grass.~Is it to an angel or a
912 Add | Modeste Mignon~ Pierre Grassou~ Letters of Two Brides~
913 VI | satiated by being constantly gratified,~stamps her face with an
914 VII | so slowly on purpose to gratify the vanity of a slave whom~
915 VIII| could be philanthropists /gratis/--one of the commonest ways~
916 III | rival's expression; he was grave, and did not smile; but
917 VIII| as to change the laws of gravitation, he left us~poorer than
918 VII | went on~with unperturbed gravity; "whereas, even if you know
919 VI | cotton stockings, or~plain gray silk stockings; or perhaps
920 VIII| which would have amazed me greatly on the~other side of the
921 VI | as a snake does under the green gauze of trembling grass.~
922 VII | which~she will not rise to greet you. Her talk will not now
923 VIII| and clean-~limbed as a greyhound. His black hair in abundant
924 V | not remember Charlotte's grievances?'--'Certainly,' she~answered
925 VI | old~mansions where a press groans in the place where formerly
926 VIII| thirty; and then,~like my grocer buried in Pere Lachaise,
927 VIII| through the fault of the~Grocers who govern us, we have not
928 I | wounds that rankle long, the groups thin~out, the mere lookers
929 VIII| age in which nothing that grows up~is at all like the thing
930 VIII| need not owe Napoleon any grudge on that score," said Canalis,~
931 II | passion when it has the guarantee of madness?~ ~"We each devoted
932 VII | equivocal compromises, of guarded proprieties, of~anonymous
933 VII | doing its~office of faithful guardian to two treasures of dazzling
934 V | thought, which I leave you to guess, she made~the most impressive
935 II | Touches always insists on her guests remaining at~table till
936 VI | European /salons/, could have guided opinion and turned it inside
937 VII | up her skirts to cross a gutter, dragging a child by~the
938 IX | He spoke with a strong guttural roll. His voice, at least
939 III | driving past her door in a hackney cab to see whether she might
940 VII | Now, you will not talk for half-an-hour with a /bourgeoise/ without~
941 III | porter's~hands. At last, at half-past three, the carriage drove
942 IX | the other. When we were half-way up we met~another regiment
943 V | was logic, handled as a hammer by boys just out of school
944 VI | forehead, a large foot, a~thick hand--she was a great lady in
945 VIII| politician who~risked men by handfuls out of economy, and who
946 IV | wife herself marked~those handkerchiefs. You have there, sir, one
947 IV | I was holding one of her hands--they were~very beautiful--
948 IX | Indeed, d'Orsay himself, the handsome d'Orsay, was eclipsed by~
949 VII | of her chair as dewdrops~hang on the cup of a flower,
950 VIII| whenever he was angry,~as happened often. His irascibility
951 V | property. So this is what happens: Any duke--and even in the
952 II | man must~hit his head very hard on the marble to dispel
953 VI | a little concentric and harmonious~twist, which makes her supple
954 V | bitterly.--'Then, in fact, you hate me?'--She bowed, and I~said
955 VI | During the winter, she haunts the terrace of the Feuillants,~
956 V | man! I have struggled! I~have----' On this last thought,
957 VII | the mirrors to see if her head-dress is keeping its place.~Her
958 VII | stereotyped phrases, the head-shaking and~gestures understood
959 V | leveling influence over their~heads. However terrible the words,
960 VIII| economy, and who spared three heads--~those of Talleyrand, of
961 II | drawing-room? The atmosphere is not heady, the~eye no longer contemplates
962 IV | skilled needlewomen,'--on hearing this a~suspicion flashed
963 V | There is no honesty in your hearts.~To you love is a game in
964 VII | perhaps after Sleep, with his heavy finger, has opened the ivory
965 VI | The press has fallen heir to the Woman," exclaimed
966 V | even be hunting a fortune?~Henceforth the eldest son's wife, a
967 VIII| This and Mr. That, would be heroic. And it~must be said, your
968 IV | adventure, of which the heroine was charming, and of a~style
969 | hers
970 III | that great~child were to hesitate two seconds longer, every
971 VI | landed estates, where it has hidden itself to~die--emigrating
972 VI | not slander or whisper, hide her~face or reveal it. A
973 I | for a book. In short, the hideous skeleton of literature at
974 V | century, with powder, patches, high-heeled~slippers, and stiff bodices
975 VI | meet."~ ~"The knell of the highest society is tolling," said
976 IX | exposed to the drought of a~highroad. Scarcely clothed in rags,
977 VI | Oriental weather, perfume the highways; and after five o'clock
978 VI | refinement. Like a botanist over hill and dale~in his pursuit
979 V | patent-leather like any duke~himself--'There, my boy, that is
980 VI | draw it round her from her hips to~her neck, outlining a
981 VIII| made so much~history that historians will be lacking. The age
982 I | definitions, of anecdotes, of historical incidents,~meander with
983 VIII| compassionate than those I had hitherto addressed, I boldly walked
984 IX | borne on the wind brought us hoarse~cries and an indescribable
985 V | days every rogue who~can hold his head straight in his
986 IV | boudoir, on her sofa; I was holding one of her hands--they were~
987 VI | especially in the way she holds her~shawl or cloak crossed
988 I | Everything is made to tell, honest~laughter takes the place
989 V | all loyalty. There is no honesty in your hearts.~To you love
990 VII | party, you will gather the honey, natural or affected of
991 VI | the Rue du Faubourg Saint-~Honore. During the winter, she
992 VI | in the eyes of~Parisians: hooks ill fastened, strings showing
993 V | need to widen it for~their hoops. The Empire saw the last
994 VIII| rising~above this house. Hoping to find there some comrades
995 Add | Human Comedy.~ ~Bianchon, Horace~ Father Goriot~ The Atheist'
996 IX | self-seeking,~melancholy, and horror which ever was enacted under
997 VIII| were eating~potatoes, some horseflesh broiled over the charcoal,
998 VIII| explicit, in Redgauntlet's horseshoe. This mark was,~perhaps,
999 III | surging in my heart and the hot blood about~my diaphragm.
1000 VI | delightful species affects the hottest latitudes, the cleanest~ ~
1001 VII | taste; her luxury is for hourly use, and duly~renewed; you